best way to mass email?

[daydreamer]

I have around 300 emails that I want to send to, in a mysql database.

 

What is the best way to go about it?

 

Write a script to send a text based email to them, or extract them to .csv and get a third party program?

 

Thanks.

[Mardoxx]

IDK but i'd write a script..

although the server may be limited to # of emails it's aloud to send /unit of time

 

make a simple mail(); script and just smack in some sql to get the email from the database

 

<?php
include('connect.php');
$query = "SELECT * FROM emails";
$from = "your@email.com";
$subject = "YOU SMELL";
$message = "REALLY NICELY";
$headers = "From: $from";
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query)) {
//send email script using $row['email'] as the email
$to = $row['email'];
mail ($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
}

[Zane]

never tried this but it would seem like a feasible solution

send the entire comma separated list of emails as a blind carbon copy.

 

so instead of making the string say To: have it say Bcc:

[Mardoxx]

hey, zanus, that's pretty good actually

 

lol export it and copy and paste into thunderbird or whatever >_<

[daydreamer]

I wrote a script, but my SMTP server started rejecting all emails after around 5mins obviously to prevent spam/overload.

 

So how can I send the emails?

 

Does anyone know of software I can use?